What's the fastest you've went without assistance?

[Roadrunner78]

What's the fastest you've went without assistance? Meaning no or minor downhill, and minimal to no tailwind. If you know it, your gearing and cadence. Due to this forum I'm really concentrating in high cadence. I know that the 40mph plus category with say 51/12 gearing and 27" or 700c wheels is blur legs and hard to do (at least for me).

Mine is 35mph relatively flat without assistance from wind.. Well not much anyway. That's 51/12 gearing and dunno the cadence and on 27" wheels.

Edit: Cadence at 105 rpm using a cadence calculator.

 

[Keith Oates]

I don't know the fastest I've been on the flat with no tail wind, but for sure it's nowhere near 40 mph!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[slowmotion]

About 24 mph, but I never bought the Oakleys.

 

[the_mikey]

About 32mph, is the fastest I've been riding so far, on a flat smooth road (rough roads take a lot more effort).

 

[Hacienda71]

Low thirties for me, but only for a very short time. Certainly can't keep going at that speed for more than a couple of hundred yards. Would be interesting to know how fast the pros go on the track in a controlled environment.

 

[TheDoctor]

IIRC the hour record on a track is a shade over 30 miles.
That's sustaining 30+mph, on the flat, no assistance, for an hour. Unbelievable...

 

[palinurus]

About 32 mph for a little stretch in a time trial, but the wind was certainly favourable (because I didn't go that quick in the other direction!)

 

[andy_wrx]

The winner of the Delhi men's TT (I won't say who - spoiler !) has just done 40k at 50.728kmh
- that's 31.7mph, for 25miles, on a straight, flat & level out-and-back course so tailwind out and headwind back,
- and 44 degrees C

 

[gavintc]

On the club run, the pace winds up for the homeward leg to about 40 kph for about 20-30 km. You are expected to do your pull on the front, it can be bloody hard and when the next pair take over at the front, it can seem like heaven to escape into the group. But, we have a marker about 10 km from home where the winds up steadily to 45-50 kph. Thankfully pulls at the front are short. When the group breaks into a final sprint for the line, about a km from home, i know I am dead and do not compete for honours of the line. We have a former pro who is the team manager, it is like poetry to watch him sprint off the front when we are already doing 45-50 kph. His pace is incredible, I do not know what speed he achieves, but way more than I could dream of.

 

[Young Un]

In some Time Trials, and away from some traffic lights if a car is annoying me, I have been known to hit around 38 mph, on probably 52-13 ish. Dunno the cadence for that sprint. If it max cadence we're talking about also, then on the rollers I have done over 200 rpm - my legs fell off shorty after!

 

[ColinJ]

I don't know about the flat, and we've done downhills before many times, but my fastest 'uphill' was about 30 mph for a few hundred metres in 53/13. That was on the Costa Blanca on the drag up towards Altea from Calpe on the N332. We used to have a sprint for the sign by the bridge on the outskirts of town. I always seemed to end up being lead-out man for the real sprinters who would come past me at 40+ mph in the last 30 metres or so!